John Mulholland is a film historian[1] and an American writer and director, specializing in documentaries.
[2] Mulholland began writing documentaries in 1980 for ARTS, a cable channel which had been recently formed by ABC.
Always interested in pre-1960s Hollywood films, Mulholland was intrigued by the posthumous reputations of such stars as Gary Cooper and Glenn Ford, and directors such as Fred Zinnemann and William Wyler, whose legacies had suffered because of the auteur theory so prevalent in critical and academic circles.
[3] Mulholland went on to explore, in two documentaries, both Cooper as actor and as central participant in the complex political controversies which almost derailed two of his most notable films: Among some of Mulholland's other documentaries which focus on classic Hollywood, are: 2013 saw the release of Mulholland's documentary Cooper & Hemingway: The True Gen, produced by Richard Zampella, narrated by Sam Waterston, with Len Cariou as the voice of Ernest Hemingway.
[10] Mulholland is among the list of signatories who have expressed doubts about the identity of William Shakespeare, joining such as Mark Twain, Mark Rylance, Derek Jacobi, and Supreme Court Justices Sandra Day O'Connor and John Paul Stevens, among a host of other notables.